Former President Donald Trump's criminal courthouse rant was cut off mid-sentence Tuesday by the conservative cable network Fox News.
Trump was laying into District Attorney Alvin Bragg, President Joe Biden, and Democrats outside his criminal hush money trial courtroom when Fox suddenly cut his mic.
"He's trying to injure his opponent," said Trump. "They're trying to hurt the opponent because they can't win fair and square—"
At this point, the network cut away, announcing an upcoming segment on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Throughout the rant, Trump proceeded to — as he has done on most days — rattle off a list of quotes from various right-leaning legal experts and Republican operatives who have criticized the trial in various ways. He also once again blamed it all on a political hit job by Biden, without providing any evidence Biden was involved in any way with the decision by local, independently elected District Attorney Alvin Bragg to charge him with business fraud.
The last few days of the trial saw a huge explosion of drama.
At the beginning of the week, Trump defense counsel Todd Blanche got the former president's ex-attorney Michael Cohen, a star witness for the prosecution, to admit he stole money from the Trump Organization, to attempt to cast doubt on the idea Trump knew all the financial decisions Cohen made on his behalf with hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Things derailed for the defense, however, when they called Cohen's former legal adviser Robert Costello to the stand, who proceeded to antagonize the judge and admit under cross-examination that he was manipulating Cohen to Trump's benefit.
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